The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-22
Minor Notes.

Burglars entered the Dicks House. at Lebanon
Wednesday, and stole valuable gold watch, the
property of the proprietor
The remains of an unknown man were found
Wednesday evening floating in the lake near the
ice-house of the Grand Rapids e. Indiana Rail-
way Company at Rome City. Nothing could be
found on the body to identify it.
The faculty committee and the executive board
of Moores Hill College have elected G.. P. Jsn-
kns. ID. D., president of the college. DR.. Jen-
kins is the pastor of the Nj. e. Church in Rising
Sun. The next college term opens Sept. Ii.
Charles Smith, aged laborer. committed
river at Greensville He had been melancholy
for time. and after dinner deliberately
walked to the river and jumped in. The body
recovered.
ryville railway. between Covington and that
place. gave way under the weight of a traction
engine. letting 1t fall about fifteen feet and en-
trely demoishng it. Chris Webster had an
broken, and Robert Baker was SO badly
scalded that he cannot live.
Miss Grace Stearns of Corunna, committed
suicide by attaching a rope to a beam in her ia
theirs barn. placing the rope around her neck
and then jumping from buggy. She is sup
posed to have been driven to the act by disap-
ponitment in love and the cruel treatment of her
father, who whipped her severely short time
before her death.
The two summer resorts at Warren are we'll
patronized, and there has scarcely been a day
Sundays excepted that there have not been one
or more excursion parties mere Tor the past i've
weeks. Company A, of Indianapolis, is encamped
at Spring Fountain Park, one and a half
mile out of this place, situated on Eagle lake,
and all its members thoroughly enjoying
themselves.
The disease known as hog cholera, which last
year carried off twenty thousand head of swine
in Grant county, has again broken out at sew
eral points Marion. No specific has yet
been discovered for this scouree. which last year
entailed loss Of arly $100 900 to Grant county
farmers. Hundreds of farmers have gone out Of
the business of raising hogs.
On Wednesday evening, at Button the
Young Peoples Mission of the NJ. E. Church had
just commenced giving entertainment at Cur
RVS Opera house when Miss Laura Cook who
was behind the scenes engaged in preparing her
toilet for her appearance, fell and Immediately
expired. Miss Cook was sister of DR. L. H
Cook who graduated at the Cincinnati Medical
College two years ago with distin guished honors.
She had been a teacher in the pubic schools for
several years, and was highly cultured Chris
tian lady
Bill Bechtel, notorious young hoodlum and
another person, visited the residence of Jacob
Casteel, old market gardener, living Just east
of Lebanon, about 10 o'clock Wednesday night,
and demanded something to eat. The old man,
recognizing them, ordered them to leave. AS
they went away they left the bars of the fence
down. and the old man went to replace them.
As he was STOPPING down, fixing the bars in
place, Bechtel struck him over the eye, infiict-
ing dangerous wound. Casteel is over eighty
wears old, and is inoffensive and harmless
man. A warrant was issued for Bechtels arrest.